Yeah, it's a deep one. The dog 'run off' - in other words, he abandoned Fisk Senior. And Fisk Senior 'lost' his son - in other words, Fisk did not quite admit to himself that his son was dead, he simply 'run off' and never came home, just like Wag did. When Fisk made the connection with Wag's death, he made the same connection with his son's death (and we saw him do it - as Spanley recounted his shooting as Wag, in his mind's eye Fisk Senior saw his son shot), hence 'you were shot.' (Yes, I heard that, too). He was talking about both of them, finally accepting that they had been shot, and that he had not been abandoned by either of them.
I have read elsewhere that some have been surprised that such a film could have been made by the big studios. Well, it wasn't - it wasn't made in America at all, it was made in New Zealand, and it never made it to the big screen in the US. Sad thing, that.
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